Distilled water

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Our local stores are posting warnings about distilled water being in short supply. Starting to limit purchases. Not sure why.
 
We bought a distiller off Amazon back when things got silly. It's been handy. But not sure we will ever break even. Then again, we couldn't get any for a while.
 
Wife uses it for the steam cleaner.
 
I use it for coffee. Doesn't foul the equipment like tap water or even "filtered" water does.
 
concepthomes2 said:
I just boil water.
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That doesn’t get the impurities out of it (minerals). Catching the steam (which minerals can’t ride up into the atmosphere in), letting it cool and condense, and using that water is virtually 100% free of impurities.
 
We use it for a counter top ice maker. Ingles is sometimes hit and miss on stock. Most weeks the shelves are loaded. About once a month the shelf is bare. I assumed it was the cpap demand.
Distilled runs 110% better than tap. Less buildup over time making it easier to keep the machine clean.
 
9outof10mms said:
That doesn’t get the impurities out of it (minerals). Catching the steam (which minerals can’t ride up into the atmosphere in), letting it cool and condense, and using that water is virtually 100% free of impurities.
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My only use for distilled water was the humidifier when my kids are sick. This concord tap water is about the hardest water I’ve seen.
 
Our ice maker quit working in our fridge a year ago. We finally bought a countertop ice maker and it recommends distilled water. We usually go through 2 gallons a week. It’s not been hard to find. It’s also in the baby food section FYI
 
Another thing to think about is the amount of distilled water that certain machinery uses in big plants. I ran one machine (had probably 10 or so in department I worked in) if it was on low side, it would take 4-6 gallons to get t up to normal and alarm off. Probably another 3 to 6 gallons to top off. Idk how much it would take to fill up completely.
 
So, I just read where a Russian hacker organization just hacked a towns municipal water system and reset parameters, causing the system to overflow. I think it was in TX.
Point being, Russian hackers can hack US water systems.
Not to mention the multi-state 911 system shutdown the other day.
 
JR-WNC said:
Another thing to think about is the amount of distilled water that certain machinery uses in big plants. I ran one machine (had probably 10 or so in department I worked in) if it was on low side, it would take 4-6 gallons to get t up to normal and alarm off. Probably another 3 to 6 gallons to top off. Idk how much it would take to fill up completely.
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We have some test equipment that uses 80 gallons of distilled water for burst testing plastic oil pans with rubber gaskets.
 
georgel said:
So, I just read where a Russian hacker organization just hacked a towns municipal water system and reset parameters, causing the system to overflow. I think it was in TX.
Point being, Russian hackers can hack US water systems.
Not to mention the multi-state 911 system shutdown the other day.
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